On 12 Mar 2019, at 12.04, Joe Wong via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have defined the following: > > mail_location = maildir:~:INBOX=~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=%u > > %u is retrieve via database in that my username contain ":", in which it > create some confusion to dovecot: > > doveadm index -u user1:site@domain iNBOX > doveadm(user1:site@domain): Error: remote(192.168.10.22:24245 > <http://192.168.10.22:24245/>): Namespace '': Unknown setting: site@domain > > I cannot change the value in DB so is there a workaround to this problem?
Convert the username to not have ':' when it comes out of auth. Could be possible with SQL userdb. With others .. I'm not sure, you might have to use Lua to convert it.